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Key... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/adopting-agentic-talks-and-reflections-from-our-ai-engineering-event-uge8uexlk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UGE8uexlK.png og:image:alt: Adopting Agentic: Talks and Reflections from Our AI Engineering Event og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Adopting Agentic: Talks and Reflections from Our AI Engineering Event **[Scott Logic](https://daily.dev/sources/scottlogic)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recap of the 'Adopting Agentic' event organized by Scott Logic, covering talks on the human and organizational impact of AI on software engineering. Key themes include the gap between individual productivity gains and organizational speed-ups, the cultural and emotional challenges of AI adoption, the risk of over-applying AI where deterministic solutions suffice, and how team structures may need to evolve. Speakers included practitioners from Valtech and FE Fundinfo sharing candid 24-month adoption experiences, alongside a live MCP demo connecting Claude Code to an arcade machine. Session videos are available on YouTube. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why do individual productivity gains from AI coding tools not translate into faster organisational output? Because coding speed is rarely the actual bottleneck in most software organisations, so making coding faster just shifts queues elsewhere in the system rather than speeding up delivery overall. At Anthropic, individual speed-ups of 10 to 20 times only translated into roughly 60% faster output at the organisational level, illustrating Goldratt's Theory of Constraints applied to agentic engineering adoption. _Teams weighing where AI actually helps can follow real-world adoption debates like this on daily.dev._ ### What organisational models are being proposed for restructuring teams around AI-amplified work? Two contrasting models were proposed: hybridisation, where everyone takes on adjacent roles such as developers making product decisions or QAs writing tests, which tends to collapse into chaos and knowledge gaps; and amplification, which keeps small, genuinely cross-functional teams intact while using AI to amplify each person's existing specialism rather than dissolving role boundaries. _Engineering leaders shaping team structure around AI can track this debate through daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [7 AI Adoption Lessons From People Who’ve Already Been Through It](https://daily.dev/posts/7-ai-adoption-lessons-from-people-who-ve-already-been-through-it-ufportw14) · Codemotion · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agentic AI in Software Development: From Coding to Orchestration](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-in-software-development-from-coding-to-orchestration-bl6akhr3q) · Syncfusion · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Beyond AI tools: Evolving software engineering organizations for the agentic era](https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-ai-tools-evolving-software-engineering-organizations-for-the-agentic-era-6luqa2y8u) · Engineering Enablement · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Culture & Methods Trends 2026: The Human Side of AI Engineering](https://daily.dev/posts/culture-methods-trends-2026-the-human-side-of-ai-engineering-vevsio7oz) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/adopting-agentic-talks-and-reflections-from-our-ai-engineering-event-uge8uexlk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Adopting Agentic: Talks and Reflections from Our AI Engineering Event","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/adopting-agentic-talks-and-reflections-from-our-ai-engineering-event-uge8uexlk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/adopting-agentic-talks-and-reflections-from-our-ai-engineering-event-uge8uexlk"},"datePublished":"2026-07-15T09:50:51.609Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:39:48.329Z","description":"A recap of the 'Adopting Agentic' event organized by Scott Logic, covering talks on the human and organizational impact of AI on software engineering. 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